Tektronix Adds Video over IP, DTV and IPTV Support to MTS400 MPEG Test Systems

Tektronix, Inc. announced new features for the MTS400 Series MPEG Test Systems, including support for Video over IP, DTV and IPTV application development. The MTS400 MPEG Test Systems provides first line diagnostics with integrated cross layer fault analysis and error logging. Time to problem insight is reduced by informing the user whether root cause of video problems is at the Transmission, Transport Stream or Elementary Stream layer.

Tektronix’s MTS400 MPEG Test Systems

The MTS400 MPEG Test Systems Series offers the broad support for the development of distribution of Video over IP, IPTV, DTV RF Transmission and H.264 next generation compression, for cable, satellite, terrestrial, fixed and mobile networks.

Enhancements to the MTS400 MPEG Test Systems Series includes a new Optical and Electrical Gigabit Ethernet Interface providing Line Rate IP connectivity and analysis capabilities including Packet Loss, MDI Statistics, Sequence Errors, Packet Inter-arrival Time Histograms and Deep Packet Inspection to enable rapid network fault isolation. The Parametric IP Playout capability allows the generation of IP multi-session traffic including the simulation of network errors including packet loss, sequence errors and jitter as well as the ability to edit IP packet headers to simulate different IPTV environments.

The new Terrestrial (COFDM and 8-VSB), Cable (QAM) and Satellite (8PSK/QPSK) RF measurement interfaces provide RF performance measurements and trends for critical metrics including MER, EVM and BER. Dual IP and RF inputs enable simultaneous measurements of inputs and outputs of ingest, headend or edge devices.

H.264 enhancements include Video Thumbnail decode, T-STD Buffer Analysis and H.264 Multiplexing. This industry-best support for H.264 makes the MTS400 series the solution of choice for use in the transition to next
generation compressed video.

Source: Video over IP, DTV and IPTV Support in MTS400 MPEG Test Systems- Tektronik